Savage Inequalities

Irl Solomon’s history class is known as the highlight of the school. In his class, there are pregnant girls, and girls who already have babies, they’re seniors in high school. Those girls themselves don’t believe that there is anything wrong with having a baby at a young age. They have no hope in finishing school. The school system is already out of order. The school has little education. Getting a diploma from a “ghetto high school” doesn’t really count for anything. But these girls are young they should be looking forward to having a bright future for themselves and their babies. They need motivation. Jennifer says that the schools in the Bronx are hell. One of the reasons why her family moved from the Bronx to Rye was the bad school system. She doesn’t believe that her parents or anyone should be paying taxes to support “them.” She doesn’t believe that paying more taxes benefits her in any way. I agree with her when she says “Someone else can’t want a good life for you. You have got to want it for yourself.” But sometimes we need our parents support and in those low –income communities some parents don’t have time to be with their children because of responsibilities. Most of the time those parents are working more than 12 hours a day to be able to provide for their children. Of course, as individuals we need to find a desire for education, but like I said we need support. The school in East St Louis revolved around poverty. Schools with no funds, sewage everywhere, and no type of support. Mostly, populated by blacks. Inequalities, we see how poor black neighborhoods don’t get the assistance they need and it affects the youth. The school in Rye was totally different. The school there was populated by Whites, Asians, some Hispanics, and even fewer blacks. They were privileged. The school wasn’t falling apart like the school in East St Louis was. In Rye, the parents were able to contribute. The students at Rye had a much better education than those if East St. Louis, they had the privilege to take Advanced Placement classes. They had Latin as a foreign language unlike East St Louis. Although, those students were being raised in low-income communities, I believe that as individuals they should have been smart and not give up. They should’ve tried hard to get out of poverty and stop those stereotypes. Some effort should come from the students to get an education. It may have been the governments fault for the poverty cycle. I believe that the government needed to pay attention and contribute more assistance to those who needed it more. I feel like the government ignored the poor areas. Everyone deserves to have an education. And everyone should have the best education, not just the white rich families. I would say yes and no to the change that the school systems have had in the last 20 years. There is still a lot of indirect discrimination in the school system. Public schools in downtown Los Angeles for example, there is still a lot of crimes being committed, and we don’t always get the best education. Some are overcrowded. Having overcrowded schools does effect the students and their learning. Even if we’re motivated to have a higher education, sometimes we can’t because of the classes you have taken they may not fulfill the college’s requirements. And sometimes the counselors at the schools don’t inform the students well enough. We need schools that prepare us to go to college, because if we don’t get prepared we have a hard time trying to adjust. This I say from experience. Nowadays we do have more support from other organizations such as Heart of Los Angeles (HOLA), is a nonprofit that helps the troubled, under privilege youth get motivated to go to college to get high education. I am a part of HOLA, I have been going for the past 5 years, and I can say that HOLA has helped me a lot. I started at HOLA my junior year in high school. We had prep classes for the SATs, events, college workshops, and other activities that would help us feel motivated to graduate and achieve a higher education.

Reflection:Savage Inequalities assignment was very interesting. I usually don't like to read articles, but the title caught my attention. I was able to complete this assignment without any self-doubt. I understood it from beginning to end. I think issues that involve inequalities are very important. I found that my comprehensions skills were improving after this assignment. I felt really good about it. I submitted it on time, which was very hard for me to do because I tend to procrastinate often. I had trouble with others. In this assignment, I was able to give my own perspective with out making it so confusing for myself. The questions were very straight forward as well. Overall, I believe this was one of my best assignments.

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